If what you're going for is launching one satellite (beating the game) and researching all techs (for the achievement), in my experience you don't really need a "full" bus. Place assemblers in a grid-like pattern as shown, adding belts, inserters, and power poles. Post all other topics which do not belong to any other category. Really quite unique in my opinion.The factory utilizes 2-8 single length single headed trains for the raw material transportation. Pristina, Hamburg This page was last edited on 31 August 2020, at 10:02. If there is enough input for the item to saturate a whole belt then putting a lane-balancer in won't help to get more items later on. Search reviews. Place another belt along the output side of the assemblers. Lubeck, Hamburg Place these one tile away from the Red Science output belt. Mad respect. Here is a checklist of those: READ MORE: Rust game file size: How big is the download? I was pleasantly surprised when I saw you were behind this. - For the belt furthest from the assembler, split off copper plates. EDIT: Here is an example of what I call a stage 2 "starter" base. Belt Balancers - how they work and how to make them, Finding balance: A guide to belt balancers, https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Balancer_mechanics&oldid=183149. Generally my main bus consists of iron plate, copper plate, and coal. is the fix to just have much larger grid sizes to account for the wait platforms? You especially want more gears and iron plates because that's what your betls cost to produce. Sometimes this can be fixed by looping the unused output back around the balancer and distributing it among the inputs. Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. The gif on the right shows a 4 4 balancer being fed by two belts, but only outputting one belt which means that its throughput in that arrangement is 50%. Place 2 rows of belts along the assemblers. Stealth Optional is supported by its audience. Some people build these assemblies off to the side, or transport these products by train as they run out of space near the beginnings of their factory. You can replace splitters and undergrounds similarly by just placing upgraded versions on top of the old, (without the need to deconstruct them). Reason being is to have 4 belts of green circuits at full power requires 6 belts of copper and 4 belts if iron. I tend to only use main busses when bootstrapping up a large train-based base so just iron, copper, steel, green circuits, and maybe gears. spaghetti for everything else. Now red belt can span 6 tiles, which is pretty good for parts of the bus. - Aarhus, Berlin by RLS0812 Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:22 am, Post Bring the belt to the target lane, then split off, making sure you make the T-junction BEFORE connecting it to ensure that product fills only a single side of the belt. After that I begin to distribute production to separate factories and do not have single main bus for all products. When you purchase With that, here's a main bus guide for Factorio, including the blueprint, designs, as well as alternatives and other important details. 2 iron, 2 copper, 1 red circuits, half and half blue/batteries, 2 plastic, green circuits, 2 steel. What are the most popular bus routes from Hamburg? Do you just want to finish the game, or do you plan on continuing after the rocket? All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Your resources still come from a mine somewhere, so your bus will get thinned out after a while even with balancing. The idea is that one wants to draw from every belt (and lane even) equally to not have too few items at the current planned production and not have empty and at the same time standing belts of items. The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. steel, copper cable, iron gear wheel) but it gets way too complicated to belt weave and it winds up making more sense to having dedicated assemblers for each of their end products. I do put steel and batteries on the bus. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.Join forces with other players in cooperative Multiplayer, create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. - Personally, Ill run 8 lines of copper, 8 lines of iron, 2 lines of steel, and 1 line each for coal and stone. When more than the number of allowed outputs backs up, the universal balancer behaves like a normal balancer, and may not balance properly. Balancers that are output balanced distribute evenly to all output belts/belt lanes. This is fixed by adding more furnace/mine set ups to keep production high. This is a good measure to combat "spaghetti factories" as it forces someone to plan a structured layout and move everything to use items from the bus. Neatness matters! This is done by adding two more splitters at the end of the balancer, as it can be seen here: However most balancers' bottlenecks can't be solved as easily. Advertisement As of 0.16 Splitters can prioritize one in- and output lane, therefore the above design can supply fully saturated belts if the splitters are set up in a way that prioritizes the output belt (to earlier production) rather than letting items go on. In essence this means that an n-n balancer is not a functional n-(n-1) balancer. The following is a split-off off a 4-wide bus. For a comparison of belt, logistic robot and railway transport systems, refer to the Transport use cases tutorial. Thus up to a full belt can be delivered and the remaining resources can go through on the main bus. Balancers also use the mechanic that splitters take an equal amount of items from both input belts. There's a lot to consider when building a main bus. (Many products require both iron plates and gear wheels). Hamburg, Giessen Hamburg, Skopje It is only visible to you. Some of the most popular companies departing from Hamburg are: Comati PSG, DTG Deutsche Touring GmbH, Sindbad, Union Ivkoni, Winew and Rute Auto. Using a non-prioritizing split-off will only distribute the shortage, not magically create more production. by Rjskeet Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:53 am, Post Two science packs made efficiently and traveling together on the same belt! It includes all the methods you need to take the designs and blueprints from the beginning on constructing your main bus, all the way up to using it to gain the advantage. Sharing makes us all stronger and more inspired to come up with new ideas! That means that a splitter can be used to put an equal amount of items on two belts. Incredibly helpful, thanks for the effort. Other times, this is not an option. - Provide all of their own modular factories and feed them with trains, and merely replace a certain part of the build once it runs out. - The following are two designs for a split-off off a 4-wide bus that feature an in-line lane-balancer(by reddit user /u/moomaka). Balancers are used to evenly distribute items over multiple belts or multiple belt lanes. don't steal from the 4 belts of iron), 2 belts red circuits, 1 plastic, 1 belt blue circuits, 1 belt with half regular and half electric engines, 1 belt of batteries. 0eNqlld1qhDAQhV+lzHUsxv/6DPsGpRTdDUvAjRLjUhHfvaPWVTBbMu1VcPR8OTOTMQOUVScaLZWBfAB5rlUL+fsArbyqoppipm8E5HCX2nQYYaCK2xRYvvAiGBlIdRFfkPOREZSnnTKwKqURt01mdKHaptbGK0VlduLwP+Jo/GAglJFGiiX1+aH/VN2tFBqTejA6VOirrnFdKAyaukVhraZ9EeYFDHpc0NFqo+5M000bHsABAewTuCHFMCeAo2fVPGAfVAsl/kM9+WZPqifuEmd3KxUPHVykFuflXWKBpu5Q7gzNtkloKmkMxo44/zVec7cg3qitCGwU7lMxVjOcuyTEfxLyrYiA2j27k9DBif+rkYg8lS6Hk8f0oXTiJsQO2suWUhpoP0oZofJIwJ/u/IPOdxcQg6pA7xiLvBnyMl0ad6HbZZSyNOBZmPhhNI7frCw6ag==, 0eNqdld9qgzAUxl9lnOs4TBq19Rl6tdsxhrahBGyUGMuK+O476jqFxpGzq+DR75fv/DHpoaw61VhtHOQ96FNtWsjfe2j1xRTVGHP3RkEON21dhxEGpriOgfmLSMLAQJuz+oKcD8yj1E5dF5mzhWmb2rqoVJVbiYVXvLXtcaXckZRvK6UcPhgo47TTas57erh/mu5aKosZ/ao7VNiLrXGdnTNo6haFtRk3RVgkGNxxQTsPD3Xnmm5M8gksCOCYwN1RDHMCWBLAFG7yjwrzBazNBjfdmrhNKg4gnLVVp/ld6oFmwdDYyxQe5j7cKA82elimvqm0cxh7xsWvyaOeHgSP6R0PaQznwQnz4CJyEZIw/0k49ua7o06Mv2wywEn8p5GEfDYE1T2lHw1B3IzYT3/Z9pQGCi/iQKg8EvDon66mfHUHMqgK9I4xGU2Ql2qE3JRt539NSpGmmeDiMAzfI+ZmDA==, 0eNqlldFugzAMRX9l8nOYcEih5TP2Ok0TbaMqEgQUQjVU8e8LdAy0hirWniIM9+TajsMNjmUnG6O0hfwG6lTrFvL3G7TqootyjNm+kZDDVRnbuQgDXVRj4P5FJGBgoPRZfkGOAyMo31ZK7lUqK6tFZk2h26Y2NjrK0q7EyX/EYvhgILVVVsl76tND/6m76iiNS2qLwaCpWyer9birQ0WcQe+WZBgN/cHwX0znNjYXU7t1AxTPHDYnU3e26UbbD9yEwI2QABYEMIW7I9eT++qZkjHow2TBmHg2w+CsjDzdX3EPc7+c9KZU1rrYo6n4dffE1iHYFgbbwpjeUVw6qvRGQxFD8sWffGNfusip3fRWDZMAJ/FTI4I8pkEl2tGnNIibEs+Jv2wZpYHeacQ9ofKO4O7c6X7OV/8fBmXhvLuYiCbIy8i4StNOiFQInqYZR34Yhm/sYzpB. ): http://www.xtermvideos.comCheck out Factorio at: https://www.factorio.comFactorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Lubricant: Used in making Electric Engines & Express (blue) level belts, splitters and undergrounds. So you should generally have 4 iron, 4 copper, 4 green circuits, and then you can do 2/2 steel/plastic to start out, then as you progress and get other resources made you can either leave them local (for gears/copper wire) or add them to the main bus on belts of 2 - so red circuits, maybe batteries etc. by Miravlix Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:19 am, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. Amsterdam, Hamburg through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Frankfurt (Airport), Hamburg Bus or train from Hamburg, timetables and tickets - GetByBus This can be done to reserve room for later expansion, blueprint-ghosts are a good usage for that as they don't allow the belt to be filled with non-usable items. - This is sometimes done to get Items crafted into a chest for personal use like pipe which only uses Iron plates. Hamburg - 1 full input belt gets split into two 50% full belts which get split into 4 belts that are each 25% full. In place they are used sparingly, 1 gear factory provides more than enough for an assembly line, and they can be placed such that the iron comes on half the assembly line, and the gears are placed on the other half. The priorities can be set in various ways but this should not distract from the fact that more resource input should be added whenever this becomes a concern. 33 $$ Moderate Sports Bars, Bowling, American (Traditional) Broadway Sports Center. Many balancers fail to balance properly once an output backs up or if an output is not used. Some items are a good candidate to be built "on-site" meaning not carried by the bus but rather made where they are needed. They are also inefficient to belt -- 1 copper plate makes 2 copper cables, inflating the need for belts by two-fold! The concept of a Main Bus is to put the most used and useful ingredients in a central spot to use for assembling machines. This can lead to designs of a base consisting of only train-stations with small logistic networks without any belts. by Saemj Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:07 am, Post 1 Rocket every 5 min "ONLY" requires one blue belt of steel and 7 copper if your curious. Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. You are very welcome! Every item that is used in more than one recipe, got it's own production area with train inputs and train outputs, in my 2700 SPM game. Green & blue circuits share a line going in. - For very large amounts of items railways may be a better alternative that can not only carry large amounts of ore but also the intermediate and end-products. These items are often just put into chests for personal use rather than on a bus. Cookie Notice But for some other parts of the bus you can easily do 6 belts next to each other Place Concrete or Stone Brick under a couple lanes of your bus & in one of the spaces between lanes (at a minimum) since it gives you a speed boost when running. by Hannu Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:28 am, Post